Re: Meats no good for our mental health?

[Guest guest]

Hi folks:

Al's 'tinyurl' link didn't work for me, so here is the abstract. In

particular note the suggestion - if I am reading it right - that up

to 13% of alzheimer's cases may really be the human version of mad

cow disease (Creutzfeld-Jakob disease):

" Thinking the unthinkable: Alzheimer's, Creutzfeldt-Jakob and Mad Cow

disease: the age-related reemergence of virulent, foodborne, bovine

tuberculosis or losing your mind for the sake of a shake or burger.

Broxmeyer L.

Med-America Research, 148-14A 11th Avenue, Whitestone, NY 11357, USA.

The possibility of the age-related reemergence of foodborne

Mycobacterium bovis (bovine tuberculosis) as a vector for Creutzfeldt-

Jakob Disease (CJD or human Mad Cow Disease) and Mad Cow disease

itself is real. The CDC reported last May of an outbreak of CJD

linked to the consumption of meat contaminated " with the agent

causing " bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in a New Jersey

racetrack between the time frame 1995-2004. In the opinion of

experts, ample justification exists for considering a similar

pathogenesis for Alzheimer's, Creutzfeldt-Jakob and the other

spongiform encephalopathies such as Mad Cow disease. In fact,

Creutzfeldt-Jakob and Alzheimer's often coexist and at this point are

thought to differ merely by time-dependent physical changes. A recent

study links up to 13% of all " Alzheimer's " victims as really having

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Bovine tuberculosis, which includes

Mycobacterium bovis and M. avium-intracellulare or paratuberculosis,

is and has always been the most prevalent threat to the cattle

industry, and the USDA reports that between 20% and 40% of US dairy

herds are infected with paratuberculosis alone. The health risk for

milk tainted with M. bovis has been known for decades and there was a

time not so long ago when " tuberculin-tested " was printed on every

milk container. Schliesser stated that meat from tuberculous animals

may also constitute a significant risk of infection. At the turn of

the 20th century 25% of the many US deaths from TB in adults were

caused by M. bovis. Dairy products aside, when past and present meat

consumption are factored in, there is three times the risk of

developing Alzheimer's in meat eaters as opposed to vegetarians. The

investigation into the causal trail for Creutzfeldt-Jakob,

indistinguishable from Alzheimer's except for its shorter, lethal

course might have grown cold where it not for Roel's and others who

linked mad cow in cattle with M. bovis and related paratuberculosis

on clinical, pathologic and epidemiological grounds. The southwest of

the UK, the very cradle of British BSE and CJD outbreaks, saw an

exponential increase in bovine tuberculosis just prior to it's

spongiform outbreaks. All of this brings up the unthinkable: that

Alzheimer's, Cruetzfeldt-Jackob, and Mad Cow Disease might just be

caused by eating the meat or dairy in consumer products or feed. It

is only appropriate therefore to explore the role of bovine TB and

the atypical mycobacteria in Alzheimer's, JCD and Mad Cow disease and

develop better serological surveillance for these pathogens.

PMID: 15694685 [PubMed - in process] "

Rodney.

--- In , " old542000 " <apater@m...>

wrote:

>

> Hi All,

>

> The pdf-available below may be more of interest to those of us who

> are less inclined to worry about minor risks to health, but maybe

> more may like the title's " Alzheimer's, Creutzfeldt-Jakob and Mad

Cow

> disease: the age-related reemergence of virulent, foodborne, bovine

> tuberculosis or losing your mind for the sake of a shake or burger. "

>

> " there is three times the risk of developing Alzheimer's in meat

> eaters as opposed to vegetarians " ?

>

> " Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and to a lesser extent Creutzfeldt–Jakob

> or the other types of senile or presenile mental deterioration

ought

> to be recognized as one of the most urgent problems of public

health

> and welfare today. It is only human nature when confronted with

> diseases as terrible at Creutzfeldt–Jakob and progressive

Alzheimer's

> that something new or unknown and terrible must be involved and

many

> scientists feed into such expectations, but sometimes the answer is

> as simple as yesteryears' epidemics and, you might just say, losing

> one's mind for the sake of a shake or a burger. "

>

> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?

> cmd=Retrieve & db=pubmed & dopt=Abstract & list_uids=15694685

>

> =

>

> http://tinyurl.com/6zgv4

>

>

> Al Pater